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This report reviews the last year of Phase II, 2017, which contributed to averting 119,127 maternal deaths since 2008. It provides an overview of Phase II as a whole and concludes with lessons learned and a look forward to Phase III, which started in 2018, guided by a business plan available here.

The Maternal Health Thematic Fund (MHTF) is UNFPA's flagship programme for accelerating improved maternal health. Since its inception in 2008, it has contributed to averting an estimated 92,000 maternal deaths through strategic interventions in 39 countries with the highest maternal mortality and morbidity rates.

This annual report highlights the critical contribution of the UNFPA-led Campaign to End Fistula in 2015 with resulted in the facilitation of more than 13,000 fistula surgeries and the training of more than 900 fistula survivors in income-generating activities. The Campaign to End Fistula is part of the work of UNFPA’s Maternal Health Thematic Fund (MHTF) to more broadly strengthen health systems to deliver quality maternal health services.

Médecins Sans Frontières, member of the Campaign to End Fistula, set up the Gitega Fistula Centre within the Regional Hospital of Gitega, Burundi, in 2009 to provide high quality, multi-disciplinary care, free of charge, all year round. This report aims to reflect on the experience of setting-up, running and handing over such a fistula project.

The new resolution calls on the international community to intensify technical and financial support to accelerate progress in the remaining days until the deadline to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 (to improve maternal health) by the end of 2015 and eliminate fistula.